Calling it "only the beginning", the Chief Minister warned that any architect, planner or designer found neglecting supervisory responsibilities in future would face similar action.
Renovation or extension of existing residential houses, including repairs to verandas or staircases and the construction of additional kitchens or toilets, will not be affected, provided the required permissions have been obtained.
Suvendu Adhikari said the committee has also been assigned an additional responsibility to complete within 90 days — a comprehensive audit of fire safety systems and lightning arresters in high-rise residential and commercial buildings across the state.
Among all those who were injured in the tragic incident, 18 are currently under treatment; two of them succumbed to their injuries over Thursday and Friday afternoon, officials said.
Former Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim has denied any role in approving the building plan linked to the Taratala warehouse collapse that killed 14 people, as political tensions rise and police widen their investigation.
The division bench also observed that had the CAPF deployment been earlier, the situation would not have been so “grave” and “volatile”.
Trinamool Congress MP Khalilur Rahaman from the Jangipur constituency said on Sunday that initial findings indicate the perpetrators of communal violence in certain areas of the minority-dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal, which has been tense in recent days due to protests against the Waqf (Amendment) Act, were primarily outsiders and not residents of the district.
The two MPs who wrote letters to HM Shah are Jagannath Sarkar from the Ranaghat Lok Sabha constituency in the Nadia district and Jyotirmay Singh Mahato from the Purulia constituency.
West Bengal Governor C. V. Ananda Bose has sent a communique to the Ministry of Home Affairs giving updates on the current situation in Murshidabad, which has been on the boil for the last few days after protests against the Waqf (Amendment) Act.
A 21-year-old youth, missing from Bhagalpur district of Bihar for over 15 years now, was reunited with his mother by authorities in West Bengal through the efforts of amateur radio operators.
